Last night, CBS aired a rather fantastic episode of CSI in which a a gentlemen with substantial gambling debts wedged a knife handle in his door jamb and proceeded to repeatedly impale himself on the blade in the hope of faking his own murder so a mildly retarded brother could collect insurance money. The show, which seems to feel the need to up ( Read more... )

My central nervous system requires a smackdown.

There is something wrong with my head.

I experienced dizzy spells yesterday upon leaving work around five-thirty. When I reached my mother's house for dinner, I noticed that my sense of balance had vanished, causing me to drift into the left wall while heading up a staircase. After using the bathroom, I was washing my hands and then looked up ( Read more... )

[To the administrator of my department] -

I did not list this in my last email because it seemed like your request was primarily geared towards dealing with special equipment, not special needs. However, after talking with [my manager], I wanted to put in a request that an attempt be made to place me in a poorly lit area ( Read more... )

I still have yet to find a graphical way to satisfactorily represent migraine aura. You would think anything possible in Photoshop.

Work should have been better today. Alas, I have no control over the tactile sense in my right hand nor can I actually see clearly at the moment (which simply forces me to type very, very slowly and edit carefully ( Read more... )

The snow was quietly flurrying, Sigur Ros was softly wailing, and I fell asleep at a stoplight ( Read more... )

So, now I am all fascinated by Alice In Wonderland Syndrome, which I had never heard of before.

"Louis Carroll who suffered from migraine, eloquently described many of these visual phenomena which probably occur when higher order visual processing areas secondary and tertiary visual cortical regions are deprived of input from primary visual areas ( Read more... )

teichopsia

The jagged, shimmering visual sensation resembling the fortifications of a walled medieval town; the scintillating scotoma of migraine.

Origin: G. Teichos, wall, + opsis, vision

Synonyms: fortification spectrum, fortification figures, telehopsias, and flittering scotoma

The debate continues over the subject of "migraine personality." Wolff described migraine patients as ambitious, perfectionist, persistent, and unforgiving.[11] The children included in Bille's study were described as fearful, tense, sensitive, and easily frustrated.6 These findings confirmed the observations of Wolff. In 1976, however, Phillips ( Read more... )